Body Always Tells When We Exaggerate. But Do We Listen?

I know people who can't describe what's wrong with them, even if they have the symptoms of a common cold. I don't know if they don't understand what their body is telling them or they can't express it in words, but I don't think it's a great situation to be in, either of them.

Fortunately, I am not one of them. I take this after my mother, she is very good at interpreting what her body is telling her. She knows what she needs even before having checkups and a doctor prescribing her medications or vitamins or whatever.

But between understanding what your body (including your mind) needs and doing it, there's a distance. We often have justifications like... one more something (whatever it is), just a little longer, I'll do it tomorrow, even though your body says enough.

It's true, your body or mind may sometimes want to trick you into doing less, when more would be good for you. And that's probably a great skill to have: to know when and how much to push it and when to stop and listen to your body and give it what it needs. And if you don't have this skill, at least listen to... experts, as shallow as this word has become.

I've seen a post with a poll by Acid today, regarding how much time we spend online.

I have to say, I was not surprised to see that the majority of answers so far are above 6 hours. And that's a long range to 12 hours. Which means some spend 6 hours online daily while others more like double. Or anywhere in between.

As I also commented, it's not the online time that's dangerous, it's the screen/desk time. But I kind of feel that's what Acid meant anyway.

And likely many of us spend too much screen/desk time daily to not have some health issues at some point in our lives.

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Sometimes our body is telling us we had enough... Back pains, neck pains, eye pains, even finger pains from too much typing (have you ever got any?). But do we listen? Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. If we have something urgent to finish, I bet most people will tell their body to shut the f... up, figuratively speaking. Deadlines are more important. But are they? They are until they aren't, and health issues become critical, a way of your body to say "I told you so!".

As I am writing this post my back started to hurt a bit. Nothing serious, I had too much walk today while the whether is still fine, so the back muscles are still tired. But I guess I'd better listen and give them more rest soon. If not now when I'm writing this, then when?

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